Criticism is warranted: Frawley (AFL website)

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Criticism is warranted: Frawley
1:17:45 PM Thu 22 April, 2004
Samantha Lane
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Richmond coach Danny Frawley has conceded that some of the criticism fired his way by several high-profile media commentators may have been warranted.

Frawley and his team have been heavily criticised since losing their last three matches, against Melbourne, St Kilda and Geelong by an average margin of 51-points.

Frawley, in his fifth season as Tigers coach and on the final year of his contract, has guided his team to 15 wins from 48 matches since leading them to the 2001 preliminary final.

Former Richmond coach, now media commentator Robert Walls this week described Frawley as a ‘dead man walking’, while former Bulldogs coach Terry Wallace also made public his criticism of the side.

“A lot of what’s been written has been warranted,” Frawley said before the team meets winless Adelaide in an important game at Telstra Dome this Friday night.

“Those things, they don’t hurt at all because I suppose if you’re going to worry about sticks and stones you are going to become reactive… as I said, a lot of it’s warranted.”

Frawley even said he accepted the angry tirade directed at him and his players as they walked up the race following a 49-point loss to Geelong last weekend.

“The Richmond supporters are very passionate and like everyone else they’re very frustrated. That’s warranted. That’s fair enough.”

Frawley has been guaranteed his position until at least the end of this year by the club’s director of football Greg Miller.

He said on Thursday that he was unfazed by criticism directed at him.

“That goes with the territory, that’s water off a duck’s back. I think that’s neither here nor there, it’s irrelevant really.”

Frawley said his players had the chance to respond to its critics against Adelaide this weekend, in what he believes is one of the most important games for Richmond in the last few years.

“The pressure’s high. Probably a little bit higher than we would have wanted it to be.

“We thought we would have been in a hell of a lot better position than we were after four games. But we’re not, we can’t do much about that, so we just have to get on the front foot and be positive and react in the right way.”
 

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Sounds like the Spud is roasted.
Whats the vibe back home?

Frawley even said he accepted the angry tirade directed at him and his players as they walked up the race
This to me speaks in volumes.
 

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I'm 100% sure the club will have told Frawley by now that he wont be coaching next year, and to make sure we dont cop the kind of shellaking by the Crows (or the Bombers) that forced them to sack Walls.

I think the article by Terry Wallace yesterday in the HS was much closer to what the coach of a Richmond team should be saying and doing to fix the present debacle.

Danny, you've practically handed him the job and you've only got yourself to blame.
 

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Water off a ducks back????? FFS SPUD.

I think you were let off lightly on sat night. Pack up and go now. Do the honorable thing so someone new can have a go at rediscovering confidence lost by our whole team. Take bloody brittain with you.

The new coach MUST appoint a new team. Brittain and hutchison are just as bad.
 

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Originally posted by itsintheblood
Water off a ducks back????? FFS SPUD.

I think you were let off lightly on sat night. Pack up and go now. Do the honorable thing so someone new can have a go at rediscovering confidence lost by our whole team. Take bloody brittain with you.

The new coach MUST appoint a new team. Brittain and hutchison are just as bad.
Correct me if I'm wrong here but I thought that Hutchy wasn't coaching anymore. I believe that he has been working in the administration as Miller's understudy for over 12 months.
 
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thats where the whole problem begins, spud starts of with a yeah nah and the players are confused as to what he actually wants them to do.

"yeah nah, you boys kick it down the corridor, how many times have I got to tell you"


LOL
 
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Originally posted by Coach Required
thats where the whole problem begins, spud starts of with a yeah nah and the players are confused as to what he actually wants them to do.

"yeah nah, you boys kick it down the corridor, how many times have I got to tell you"


LOL
:D :D :D
 
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Originally posted by Tigerrific
Correct me if I'm wrong here but I thought that Hutchy wasn't coaching anymore. I believe that he has been working in the administration as Miller's understudy for over 12 months.
Sorry to have to correct. Hutchison IS football manager, but he ALSO has a coaching role on match days/nights. He sits in the box as an assistant, and he also takes the backline at quarter time and three quarter time breaks. I know this for a fact, as the backline (especially Chaffey) completely ignored him last Saturday night against Geelong while he spoke AT them.
 

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